Hive Stirrings
Sorcery
Create two 1/1 colorless Sliver creature tokens.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #15846
Hive Stirrings puts two 1/1 Sliver tokens on the battlefield for three mana — functional, but unambitious by itself. It earns a slot only in dedicated Sliver tribal builds where every token counts toward an exponential board state.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Hive Stirrings is a Sliver-tribal card and almost nowhere else — outside that tribe, three mana for two 1/1 tokens is well below rate in every format. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion in Sliver builds that want redundancy on token production, though it competes hard with more efficient options. In Pauper it's legal but irrelevant outside niche Sliver aggro attempts. Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, and Vintage are all too fast for a three-mana do-nothing at sorcery speed, and Slivers in those formats lean on creatures, not spells, to go wide.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Hive Stirrings is deep bulk — buy it without thinking if a Sliver deck wants it. Bulk commons don't move, so the price is stable in both directions.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.